The Normans did create new earls like those of Herefordshire, Shropshire, and Cheshire but they were associated with only a single shire at most.

Thus every earl had an association with some shire, and very often a new creation of an earldom would take place in favour of the county where the new earl already had large estates and local influence.

In 1974, under local government reorganisation, Abingdon became part of the non-metropolitan shire county of Oxfordshire and the seat of the new Vale of White Horse District Council, with Abingdon becoming a civil parish with a town council.

In the early 10th century a new shire was founded with Warwick as its administrative centre, giving the settlement new importance.

In 1890, during the reign of Rama V of Bangkok, Phraya Si Sahathep ( พระยาศร ี สหเทพ ), Plat Thun Chalong ( ปล ั ดท ู ลฉลอง ) of the Ministry of the Interior, completed an inspection tour of the cities in the Northwestern Mandala ( see also Mandala ( Southeast Asian history ) and Mandala for perspective ) and consulted with High Commissioner Phraya Ritsaratchakit ( พระยาร ิ ศราชก ิ จ ข ้ าหลวงใหญ ่), who oversaw the Northwestern Mandala, to organise a new order of governance, namely, he would incorporate the partially independent city-states of Mae Hong Son, Khun Yuam ( เม ื องข ุ นยวม ), Yuam ( เม ื องยวม ) ( Mae Sariang ) and Pai into a single unit of government to be called the Boriwen Chiang Mai Tawantok, or Shire of Western Chiang Mai ( บร ิ เวณเช ี ยงใหม ่ ตะว ั นตก ), and placed the government of the shire ( which was now comparable to that of a single mueang ) at Khun Yuem by appointing Nai Mot ( นายโหมด ) as shire reeve ( as stated by the Minister for the Interior on July 11, 1901 ).

The areas they covered were termed administrative counties and were not in all cases identical to the traditional shire counties, but in Oxfordshire the whole ' ceremonial county ' came under the authority of the new council.

The name Bulleen, a nearby suburb, was proposed for the new municipality, as it was the name of the shire predating the City of Doncaster and Templestowe.

Most of the former Winchelsea Shire, the Barrabool Shire, and the Torquay section of the former City of South Barwon, which was, at that point, part of the City of Greater Geelong, was merged into the new shire.

The boundaries of the new shire remained largely unchanged until 1984, when outlying districts including the suburbs of Nerimbera and Parkhurst were ceded to Livingstone's larger neighbour, Rockhampton City.

The boundaries of the new shire remained largely unchanged until 1984, when outlying districts including the suburbs of Nerimbera and Parkhurst were ceded to Livingstone's larger neighbour, Rockhampton City.

As a result, the shire erected a fence across new bridge to prevent people from using it, with the fence being removed several times by an unknown party until a guard was placed.

According to the Australian Bureau of statistics during the year 2004-2005 Busselton's growth rate for the 12 month period was 6. 5 %, bringing 1700 new residents to the shire and increasing the population to an estimated 27, 546.

The department of Local Government instigated the formation of the new Logan shire, which included the northern suburbs of both Albert and Beaudesert Shires.

In the 10th century it became the head of the new shire of Lincolnshire.

The areas they covered were termed administrative counties and were not in all cases identical to the traditional shire counties, but in Wiltshire the whole ' ceremonial county ' came under the authority of the new council.

On May Day in 1960 the first two shire horses were led out of the smart new Thwaites stables.

When the Domesday Survey was initiated, by William, in 1086, men were sent to " each shire " in his new kingdom.

The new shire offices were opened in the town centre in 2006.

In August 1999 the Bega Valley shire council was sacked and an administrator was put in place until 2002 where a new council was elected.

Berwickshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 to 1918, when it was amalgamated with neighbouring Haddington ( shire ) to form a new Berwick and Haddington constituency.

Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.

So simple, in fact, that it might even work -- although Pamela, now, in her new frame of mind, was careful not to pretend too much assurance.

The hands and their bosses saw him as a lone knight of the range, waging a dedicated crusade against a lawless new society that was threatening a beloved way of life.

That was the new advertising angle -- something about a Lloyd's of London policy to insure the secrecy of the secret ingredient.

My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.

His advice, his voice saying his poems, the fact that he had not so much as touched her -- on the contrary, he had put his head back and she had stroked his hair -- this was all new.

and Robinson Roy, who had gone down this line ten minutes before to set a new depth record for the free dive, was already back on the surface.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

So Dandy Brandon trustingly entered the house with Delphine Lalaurie and trudged up the rear steps to the attic room which was to be his new home.

This new force, love of country, super-imposed upon -- if not displacing -- affectionate ties to one's own state, was epitomized by Washington.

Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.

It was a brilliant debut, so much so indeed that it aroused a new vitality in the younger poets, as did Byron's Childe Harold.

At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??

The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.

He was engaged in constant experiments that searched for new directions.

Running across the deck, which was empty now that the livestock had been killed and eaten, they sniffed the spice-laden breezes that came from the shore, each pointing out new and exciting wonders to the other.

Ann, pleased to see her friend happy, was intrigued by the new fruits a friend of Captain Heard had sent on board for their enjoyment.

Though she did not then know its name, this strange new fruit was a banana.

To old-line Democrats, the Hearst Presidential boom, now in full cry, was the joke of the new century.

His nationalism was not a new characteristic, but its self-consciousness, even its self-satisfaction, is more obvious in a book that stretches over the long reach of English history.

As always, the ranks worked out new and better tactics, but there was brilliance in the way the field commands adopted these methods and in the way the army commanders incorporated them into their military thinking.

It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.

The charge was so farfetched that Woodruff paid little attention to it, and answered Pike in a rather bored way, wearily declaring that a `` new hand '' was pumping the bellows of the Crittenden organ, and concluding: `` In a controversy with an adversary so utterly destitute of moral principles, even a triumph would entitle the victor to no laurels.